Designing for outside spaces can ba a bit of a challenge these days. How often do designers create work for spaces that they never get to actually see in person? All that is communicated are specs, limitations of print production, maybe some other particular requirements. Much of the actual design process then ends up happening on the same screen that is used for researching the web, writing memos and IMing colleagues.
It could also be that the image below is the result of “vendor pricing optimization”… yeah… that’s probably what happened here… (everything is a deal, you know…) ah, it might not really matter… it is just temporary, for a year or so… ; )